Genesis 41:45
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| Overview - Genesis 41 | |
| 1 | Pharaoh has two dreams. |
| 9 | Joseph interprets them. |
| 33 | He gives Pharaoh counsel, and is highly advanced, and married. |
| 46 | The seven years of plenty. |
| 50 | He begets children. |
| 53 | The famine begins. |
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Genesis 41:45 (King James Version)
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
- Zaphnath-paaneah
- Which in Coptic signifies a revealer of secrets, or, the man to whom secrets are revealed. Jerome says this name signified in Egyptian, {Savatorem mundi,} "the Saviour of the world;" and {Psotem-phaneh,} in Coptic, is certainly "salvation of the world," from [SOT,] for
- [soteria
,] salvation, {em,} the sign - of the genitive case, and [PHENEH], world. If this interpretation be correct, Pharaoh must have meant Egypt by the world, or which Joseph might be justly termed the Saviour. We know that the Romans called their empire {Universis Orbis-Orbis Terrarum,} "all the world:" the Chinese say the same of their empire at the present day, and the phrase is used in the East: Nadir Shah is described on his coins as "Conqueror of the World," ie., Persia. See the same
- phraseology applied to Syria, Palestine, etc. Luke 2:1 ; Acts 11:28
- priest of
- or, prince.
- 14:18 Exodus 2:16 ; *marg:
- 2 Samuel 8:18 ; 20:26 *Heb:
- On
- 46:20 Ezekiel 30:17
- Aven